‘Scandal,’ Season 3, Episode 12, ‘We Do Not Touch the First Ladies’: TV Recap

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Hilary George-Parkin

Mar 7, 2014 6:56 am ET

With Liv installed as campaign manager once again, the Grant administration on “Scandal” is getting poised for another turn ‘round the election season spin cycle. But with all the President’s men busy covering their tracks, will the White House make it through unscathed?

Fitz’s power hangs in the balance, and at the beginning of this week’s episode, we hear him working through the tension in an all too familiar way: a lover’s quarrel with Liv. From the end of a hallway lined with Secret Service comes a refrain she’s uttered many times before. “You can’t win me,” she says, quivering. “I have a business to run, a life to lead…I cannot honestly win a presidential election if I am your public whore.”